Skeptical theists purport to undermine evidential arguments from evil by appealing to the fact that our knowledge of goods, evils, and their interconnections is signi cantly limited. Michael J. Almeida and Graham Oppy have recently argued that skeptical theism is unacceptable because it results in a form of moral skepticism which rejects inferences that play an important role in our ordinary mo...

Does God exist? This is a question that philosophers have sought to answer for centuries. But consider the following: What value impact of God's existence? Would existence be good or bad? Should we want These are questions only very recently garnered attention from philosophers. To date, they mostly been tackled by comparing world where exists another as similar it possible but doesn't exist. T...

Abstract C.S. Lewis’s ‘Argument from Desire’ is best summed up by his famous line, ‘If I find in myself a desire which no experience this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation that was made for another world’. In short, unfulfilled ‘seemingly transcendent desires’ point to fulfilment realm. argument fraught with disagreement, and subsequently, questions remain as its efficacy theisti...

Historically, most mathematicians have believed that mathematical truths such as "2+5=7" exist independently of human minds, being universally and eternally true. Mathematicians believe they are discovering properties of, say, prime numbers, rather than merely inventing them. This view of mathematics dates back to Pythagoras (500 BC) and Plato (400 BC). It is often called “Platonism”. In order ...

The cognitive science of religion (CSR) indicates that belief in supernatural agents, or “gods”, is underpinned by maturationally natural biases and systems (Natural Religion). It unclear, however, whether theism natural. Does the god concept our give rise to approximate theism? In other words, Natural Religion “theism-tracking”? As Christian theologians have different views what God like, we a...

In recent years, there has been a renewal of interest in the spiritual significance of the natural world. This development is evident for instance in certain strands of the environmental movement, and in the growing interest in the religions of indigenous peoples. In this article, I consider one important attempt to give the natural world such significance in terms of the framework of tradition...